The gathering comes as Garcetti and members of the Los Angeles City Council are working with county officials on a plan for tackling the growing number of people in the city who are homeless.

This week the council approved $12.4 million to be used for increasing the number of shelter beds this winter and housing subsidies for about 1,300 homeless individuals.

The one-night estimate of homelessness covering all of Los Angeles County, except for Glendale, Pasadena and Long Beach, conducted in January found there were 6,781 more homeless people than in 2014, a 20 percent increase.

The second day’s talks will revolve around climate change and coincide with the final day of COP21, a climate change conference in Paris at which more than 100 world leaders are working to reach a legally binding agreement on goals for reducing greenhouse gas and other emissions that cause climate change.

Garcetti, President Barack Obama and Gov. Jerry Brown were among those who attended the Paris conference.

— City News Service

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